At Arewa event, Akande, Sani, Alia score President high on performance

Erstwhile National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adebisi Akande, has faulted the  alleged tension generated by the opposition in the days leading to  the  2023 presidential election, describing it as misplaced on account of the “performance of this  administration in one year in office.”

He claimed that the opposition had even before independence, never wanted a united country, pointing out that, “since 1953, when a motion for Independence was first moved in Parliament by Chief Tony Enahoro, our polity has been moving from the tension of one threat to another that Nigeria must not be allowed to continue as one and united country.”

His assertion was on the heels of accolades heaped by Governors Uba Sani of Kaduna State and his Benue counterpart,  Hyacinth Alia on Tinubu, adding: “The  President is the pillar of democracy in Nigeria.”

In his remarks as chairman of a one-day lecture, organised by Arewa Think Tank to celebrate the first anniversary of the current administration, Akande said: “Towards the last elections, the prophecy was that Bola Ahmed Tinubu would not become the APC candidate, he did become.

“Clerics were of one belief and others became sleepless for him not to win the presidential elections, he won.

“Spiritual threats and political maneuvering began thereafter that he would not be inaugurated as a Nigerian President, he assumed the Presidency.

He added: “The battle shifted to the judicial sword-crossing that he should be removed from the Presidency, his presidency became upheld! Other predictions were that he would have no health to manage the office, but he remained divinely healthy.

“Then the agitation that Nigeria would not survive his political agenda, Nigeria has been waxing stronger and stronger as one and united country. One Nigeria is a major part of what we are now celebrating.”

Alia stressed the need for Nigeria’s unity, saying: “Our religions should not be a dividing factor to us.”

He added that Nigeria as a country must not fail as its failure would negatively affect the entire Africa as a continent.